24th Chaos Communication Congress: What is Terrorism? And who is terrorising whom?

Life as the partner of a terrorism suspect means living with police
and secret service surveillance: phone tapping, video cameras pointing
at your doors, plain-clothed police following your every step, e-mail
and internet access being monitored etc etc.

My partner Andrej Holm was arrested July 31 this year because
roughly one year before German police found his writings on
gentrification, together with him being a political activist and not
always taking his mobile phone along, suspicious enough to start a
terrorism investigation. It's a bit more complicated than that, but
that's basically it. After he was arrested at gunpoint in our apartment
at 7 am in the morning I realised that I, too, was the focus of
surveillance. As were colleagues, friends
and family. It was made quite clear that we were meant to notice.

My partner was released from prison after three weeks and by now the
terrorism charges were taken back and turned into accusations of having
formed a 'criminal organisation'.

After the initial shock I started blogging about everyday life with surveillance.